List of Famous people who died in 2002

Pyotr Ivanovich Ivashutin was a Soviet Army General and head of the state and military security organs, who was deputy chairman of the KGB (1954-1963), temporary acting head of the KGB in 1961 and the longest running head of the GRU.

Lewis Raymond Stricklyn was an American film actor, stage actor, television actor, soap opera star and publicist. His acting career took off with B-movie Westerns that placed his boyish good looks playing opposite top talent of the time.

Judson Pratt was an American film, television and theatre actor. He is known for playing Billy Kinkaid in the American western television series Union Pacific, in which he starred with Jeff Morrow.

Philip Glenn Whalen was an American poet, Zen Buddhist, and a key figure in the San Francisco Renaissance and close to the Beat generation.

John Henry Kyl was an American politician who served as a member of the United States House of Representatives, representing Iowa's 4th congressional district from 1959 to 1965 and again from 1967 to 1973. He was a member of the Republican Party.

Stephen Longstreet was an American author and artist.